We clip from papers of recent date
the following suggestive items, which
give fresh evidence of the general unrest
and forebodings of evil to come.
Again
and again we are reminded of the prediction
of our Lord, that the powers of
the heavens shall be shaken, and that
men's hearts shall fail them for fear, and
for looking after those things that are
coming on the earth.

The problems of the present hour
baffle the wisdom and skill of statesmen,
and with an increasing emphasis
demand their attention.
Divine wisdom
alone can adjust the tangled problem of
human affairs.
But we rejoice to know
that after the storm shall have reached
its climax and spent its force, men will
be prepared for a better order of things,
and then they shall recognize the Son
of man coming in power and great
glory; and will be prepared to submit
to his rightful authority.

SOCIALISMITS DANGERS.

"Just how long the questions raised
by American socialists and so-called
land reformers of the Henry George
stripe can be kept out of politics is more
than can be told, yet it would be foolish
to ignore their existence or keep
ignorant of their nature.
Socialism is
a subject that has received very little
attention from our students or legislators.
Its aims are illy understood.
The
popular eye has seen little more than a
discontented lot of fierce sans-culottes and the ear heard only their wild and
incoherent ravings.
About all that is
known of them is that socialists would
tear the present order of things to
pieces if they only had the power.
Sunday's Globe-Democrat contains an
interview with T. V. Powderly, General
Master Workman of the Knights of
Labor, an organization of workingmen
that bears 900,000 on its rolls, and has
an active membership of full 600,000.
'Do you think that labor now enjoys
the rights that belong to it?' questioned
the reporter.
We quote the reply:

'We do not.
The condition of the
working classes is truly deplorable in
many respects, and I very much fear
there is trouble ahead.
Capital must
learn to respect the claims of labor, and
that soon.
If not we shall have revolution.
It is no use to be mealy-mouthed
about the situation.
Talk of communism!
That amounts to nothing.
The
relations between the capitalists and the
workingmen are all wrong, and they
must be righted.
It is our mission to
do as much to this end as we can.
When
Gen. Grant came back to this country
after going abroad, he spoke of the
asphaltum pavement.
That he said was
what was neededthat and Gatling
guns, and then they could adjust these
differences of capital and labor.
Why
asphaltum pavements?
Because they
can not be torn up and made into
barricades."

The speaker's eyes flashed and his
voice took on the lower tones as he continued:
'But we have a counter-irritant
now.
Dynamite! That will offset their
pavement and their guns.
We hope it
will not come to this.
There are other
ways of settling differences, and our order
is devoting itself to a peaceful and
a rational solution of the problem.'

That all sounds like idle bravado, yet
it may be the inner thought of a million
workers.
Men must have worked themselves
to a considerable frenzy, when
they even talk of dynamite as a means
of avenging their supposed wrongs.

On the same day, in Chicago, there
was a gathering of working men, and
their theme was 'Socialists, What they
Want, and How they want it.' This
very comprehensive subject was discussed
by Alexander Jonas, editor of the
New York Volks Zeitung, Paul Grottkau
of the Arbeiter Zeitung (Workingman's
Paper), and a T. J. Morgan.
Mr. Jonas is said to be very moderate in
his views as compared with other apostles
of Socialism, yet they contrived to
say:

The object of socialists was that each
man should be free to work as much as
he thought he owed to the world, and
take in return as much as he needed.
He did not care for art and science as [R656 : page 8] long as millions were starving and in
misery.
Socialists did not want charity,
but justice, and it was the duty of workingmen
who were enlightened as to the
aims of socialism to canvass their fellow-laborers
actively and impart their own
intelligence and knowledge to them.
It
had been asked why in Cincinnati the
workingmen who all had rifles at home
did not turn out and shoot.
The reason
was simply that they did not know
enough yet.
But the day would come
when intelligent workingmen, formed
into armed battalions, would turn out,
and then, would capitalists and landlords
see who was the strongest of the
two!
[Terrific applause.]

We see that the 'terrific applause'
came in just at the point where blood
became visible.

Morgan, who spoke in English, did
not have a good show to unload himself,
but said in substance that socialists demanded
that their condition be measured
by the possibilities that surrounded them.
They were dissatisfied with the existing
condition of affairs.
At one end of the
social system was Vanderbilt, and at the
other the tramp.
Both must be done
away with, and to accomplish this, land,
railroads, manufacturers, tools and machinery
should be made the common
property of the people, and not be controlled
by a few.

This was entirely too tame a statement
to arouse enthusiasm among the revolutionists,
but he was followed by Grottkau,
who pleased them better.
In his
opinion, socialists should attain their
ends by a physical revolution, and should
do so at once.
He was opposed to their
taking a part in politics, but wanted a
revolution, pure and simple, with plenty
of dynamite and gunpowder.
Alexander
Kempke believed in educating the working
people in the principles of socialism,
and in their participating in politics.
A
revolution must surely come about, but
they were not prepared for it at present.

These are samples of teachings and
expressions that are being inculcated
and find utterance in most of our large
cities.
There certainly ought to be
some definite information in the hands
of the authorities as to the extent to
which these sentiments are entertained
among workingmen.
We have an unfortunate
habit of letting things run until
they are practically beyond control.

The city of New York did so with the
Boss Tweed Ring.
The nation did the
same with the propagation of States
Rights doctrines, and it resulted in the
most tremendous war of modern times.
We have done the same with Mormonism,
till now it is fairly entrenched in the
heart of the continent, and is able to bid
defiance to the Legislature and moral
forces of the Republic.
With these examples
before us, it is certainly unwise
to continue the laissez faire system with
so active, seductive and dangerous a
thing as socialism."

"THE DYNAMITE SCARE IN LONDON.

LONDON, June 22.The Irish leaders
in London just now seem to be anxiously
awaiting some expected development
of an extraordinary character.
The
fact that the Parnellities seem to be in a
state of constant apprehension would
indicate that they have a good reason to
know that the 'Force Party' are on the
eve of attempting to carry out some
well-planned scheme of terrorism.
The
police are nervously active.
London
was never so thoroughly patrolled.
Strangers arriving at any of the Metropolitan
entrepots are closely scrutinized,
and in many cases "shadowed" until
proved beyond suspicion.
All the Ministers
are guarded by detectives to and
from Parliament and the public offices.
The entire detective force has been put
on double duty alternately.
When Parliament
is in session visitors are discouraged
from attendance and strangers are
not allowed in the building at all.
Before
each sitting the Parliament buildings
are searched by the police from cellar to
roof, and immediately after each rising
all people are ejected from the palace
yard and the gates are locked and
placed under guard.
All the Ministers
and a majority of the Troy leaders have
adopted the custom of leaving Parliament
in cabs, the Ministers making their
exits through the private entrances.
During each recess all the corridors and
vaults of the Parliament buildings are
constantly patrolled by special sentries.

The Thames Embankment has been
placed under the care of special appointed
watchmen.
Nearly all the well-known
Invincibles who recently were
conspicuous in London have either disappeared
or suddenly become quiet.
Peter
Tynan, long regarded as the mysterious
"Number One," recently left London,
leaving word that he was going to
America.
It has been ascertained that
he went straight to Paris, and it is asserted
that he was seen in the French capital
recently.
Capt. McCafferty is known
to be there.
It is generally feared that
the leaders of the Invincibles are in secret
session in Paris for the purpose of
directing from there the expected developments
which are awaited with a
fear bordering upon panic."